Search for dissertations about: "cohabitation"
Showing result 1 - 5 of 28 swedish dissertations containing the word cohabitation.
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1. Reconstructing Marriage in a Changing Legal and Societal Landscape : Challenges of New Cohabitation Models in Sweden
Abstract : What is marriage? From a legal point of view, marriage is a contract which establishes a civil status. However, marriage is no ordinary contract. There is also a symbolic dimension to marriage, which cannot easily be understood from a strictly legal perspective. READ MORE
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2. Beyond a Second Demographic Transition? Fertility and family dynamics in Iceland
Abstract : This thesis serves to bring Iceland into the realm of Nordic family-demographic and fertility research. Based on event-history techniques applied to Iceland longitudinal register data, I provide an overview of contemporary family-demographic trends during the last few decades. The thesis consists of four empirical studies. READ MORE
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3. Bedroom Politics. How family policies affect women’s fertility and union formation decisions
Abstract : Most studies on policies’ effect on fertility depart from the assumption that fertility decisions are taken within unions, by partners who behave altruistically towards each other. This study argues that such a focus misses a fundamental fact: namely, that fertility decisions are closely interrelated with decisions about union formation and union dissolution. READ MORE
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4. The effect of cohabitation on marriage formation and dissolution: : experience of Swedish men born between 1936 and 1964
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5. Couples in Sweden : studies on family and work
Abstract : This thesis contains four separate studies that in various ways focus on family and work in Sweden. The studies address different dimensions of how family and work are connected, which is increasingly important as most men and women today participate in both spheres. READ MORE